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tieranted- to but 700, and when General S tuxt :sei ea the 911) of August, the whole of the'ciival l ry did not exceed 1500. In 1807, when . ere thought of making any impression on the' CucciHeiu with a' British force, the Noble Lord, proud of stetting to the House tbaeffe:is of his.aaivi t ty thiring the short time he had been in achankirii- Atm, asserted that he had raised 400() cavalry, and while no particular call was made lot them abroad,. atmised himself ~at itoine, defying the world with his new rained r4OOO cavalry. Where were .these' when the :late • reptisitiolis were made,? He was much tist.hslted at the words of Sit• Arther Welles- • ley, when lie:asserted that as it was . uncertain 'where they might be emptoyeil, good horses were not ne••, cessary tu draw..the ry, eze. This was she first ease of the kind that had ever fallen within his knot:v..: ktige, %vim/tool he list heara of tiiilitaty operations; being perturmod where horses and artillery were, not'l necessary ; but never,„knew that in any case it would be. te'cessary to. have toad horses. ft should almost seem, toe Ministers, consider it necessary 'w,hen an army has something to do, to retard its' opernions h) equipping it in such 4 nti%erahle !ma iler as to render it inetti , ;ient iu seine essential pciinr. The NOble laird 'now proceeded to state the diud. , Vant'4es hint resulted from ;,t deficiency in the ar , tiller y,; which was by no mearci proporlionate,to f he f orc e employed. He would next si:dethe'unbecorni. • ing erhnidiance of . Mieisters With:respect to indulging the wislie- of the Esetirial Con , ention, a§ !ia most desirable pout' of debarkation, which they thot.'ight ft olio!. be in Gallicia. It was apparent. by the country what the consequence of our lauding in Portugal has been. Three dayei offer - the galliont General (Sir Arthur Wellesley) had effected lap& iin in that country, our ht p s we're cheered by the vi?..tory of Biolleia. And it the public confidence were placed on a Cothrnander 'who had so far con dueted 'nutters with credit to himself' and honour to the artris of his Country, Wherewas . the necessity or settiog•anether General over him ? And not only one COMmander wit s sent to supersede him, hut six successive ones. He wonlffnoW, from the diseaiches before the House: SIR w to a certainty that Sit Hew . • D'All*Vmple • was riot entrusted whit any corninunica.. dions' on the ultimate object of the expeditiuu. The . Noble Lord i.eposite (Lord 'Castleretigh) may per ceive the b,fitiefits - which •we derived Lout the ehauge a Sir Arthur 'Weilesley for Sir H.ilurrard, and of the l mei . for Sir . Hew•Dalrythple If the NOble Lard had acted in This manner in order to, preserVe harmony bet ween them,' he' would ceitainV little merit to hitos‘At from the arrangement. By altering the pet :archers. h ..• pride. iroptove [tient in the instruments. II haritiony had . existed ' between the ConunanderS, it could ut r be certainly attribtacd to the method which Minute:', hadlidopt ed: I.le could net help remaiking the dist resslng t naticui of a gallant officer,' whose,. loss Atte counttt;t had now to Seplotie, hi being recallcid froo) . the dish expedition only to feel th•t'' infetiority of Second ary coinniand in that of Portugal. • lie rionhtd not (:u • such was the established sharatler •the mented Sir John Moore, as to remove any dotibt on the matter), but thatsupder his condto, we should ex,perienced a result to the carol) not to censured bum He would ask it tins were not the language of Ministers on the occasion- . " You, Sir A. ‘Vellesley, • are. to be, superseded to day by Sir [I. Batraid, and he in his turn by. Sir. Hew paiei topic io.,muirow !" After some other observations to the same. effeet, 'the Nob!e Lord pro ceette;l to an accusation (11 Mioisters,in eel j iub s tub toe lunch coofidence for seitclies in tries way of prove e sloe from the ititorior whereat:it +N as will known (kit that (Napery wut int •duall , ; tht! ‘ sopport 01 itself, fro:ti its own resources', for seven moth :is in the year. There was a sc lEcity of bread iti the country', and the cattle forslaughter was by no mi:ans sufficient. Thotigh the ...Noble Lou t oppo-w may' bo-ist of Its economy ; yet, wheit . ,it comes; to the proof, tie makes rete of it, as 'St hers do of their ikealth,, Merely for display. lie.had heard that plaosoply was a' good horse in the stable, but would never do on the road. In like manner, it may be said, by revers ing the adage, that the Noble Lord's economy was very well oti the road, biff would not answer at all: in the stable. The Noble Lord, in a sarcastic man ner, alluded to the dolay of transports necessary for the einnat kat ion of teivairy, as an eltridation of this ecnnomy. ilea Went into a state meet of the relative affairs, ot Spain at the period in which the engaged in the liberatiOn• of Portugal. All thina's,. k represented, were highly favourable to our co•opt!rat in the former country, after the defeat of Depoot, the retreat Of Bessieres and .h.seph ' kluunaparie. He again reveited, with ho iuconsi- Oerable acrimony, to the eiretuostalice of unneces. sAry superscdunce in the command . of the expetti . ;ion ; and 'dwelt . ery 'forcibly on the irregula rity o f the instructions given by Monsters. He then went into a detail ofeircienstAnces from Sr Arthur Wellesley's i.inditig at Mond, Bay, through the victories of P‘olicia and Vanier a, to diet disgraca-. tut Convention on I,vh'icli the present'comptainr is instituted. Sir FL Burtaid (says the Noble Lord) immediately after tt.e. Litter victory', lands and as- Wines the comitvsn'l but Sir liew Dalry.nple is shortly atter sew Item Gibraltar to disposseis hit°, Mind the Sue of bit' Harry'sets to rise no more. yhe Nebie Lent rt .', ptest'.nted Sir Hew Dalrymple as entrusted !,),, GovernMent, smiler with thedefi m{ide he waS to pursue, or the definite objed to be attained; and outwit hstanding such eonmunica tiori writlil.P.-10, that lie Was ibtested with total respousibilny. He &mud tint' ferbear from repro bating the otigetiei - otis conduet pf . rvlinisters on this occasion, I j r C could impute no impropriety to • Si- Hew Dalrymple ill •llowing up matters tu he did, Ile spoke of the representation made . by Sir A,•Wel lesley to Sir H. B o nner :I, with respect to the' slate of the teginitetts'at the 'tine.' the latter Officer assumed the. Coffilti,l!)(l. Sir Asilitir stated that they Were all perfect health, het su want of, cavalry., amid this . latter co , ,i , terathai it Sir 88. i 3 errant to fotego tee pur e eit of the eiieloy. The !elute deficiency with the ath.tnion'ill one of artillery was lepres'eoted tO Sir I kW D.:ley rupie on a shridaf oee.hion by Sir H. Bur ram, lei no place was the necessity or a SUtheiatt' train iriiher , ), evinced ipore 1 1 / 4 1 I . ol7C. ,, VcdratS j i cotilltry would Ir uit rendeme,l it tat ' no; oiled„ and advantage. Ail this deli ;jet le e ri•erc4re t atie tt of one 6; y... , t ..) others. bit H. DArymple was, i I mite iight of ii principal in opposite he (Lord H. 1 t well as if we had it not at all." He could ndelook upon the pniseisinn at 'Portugal as being.rif hat;:im,.. pOri,ance Which Was rpreiented..Hetim..sideri , ll. that' it was from want of prolier instruCtio:(hat we !ilk . ' mate a transfer of the enemy's troOps which were locked up in thM country, and which were now op pOsed to onrarms before the terminatiott - trftre cam paign in Spain, their entrance ittto_which it: was Our policy to. prevent. From this we are to turn our at tention to a circumstance which has comtnitted the' honour of the ciruntry, and disappointed its . hopes and ertpMations.' By *bat ha's this disgraceful oc currence been created ? By false; information, the • want of proper instructions, and the inadequacy of equipments. The Noble Lord, with some expatia tkm on the state of ilia Russian Fleet lying in the' Tagns, ,said, that Lord Strangford, some time in the yeariBo7,. sitgested a plan Whereby to reduce it. After a great deal of uninteresting detail, the islOble: Lord stated, that' in his opinion, the maritime On e ention admitted a priaciple hitherto unknown in the . armak dim naval history. And he believed it 'was an unique instance upon record, of an enemy's Fleet entering our ports in such a character as was autho rized by 'the treaty. And what was to become of !;rail'' Otfictrs and men belonging to that Fleet They were gone back to the s , mvice of the Emperor Of Russia, to aff, not in an amicable manner towards us or our allies, but Id side with our inveterate ene;- mY against both. In fine, 'he would ask of the whole country—he Would •put the question to the inhabi tants'of - Bistay; who have marked the baleful pro gress of those I berated marau iers—to the natives of Astbrias and.Gallicia—in a WOI a. to alt sritlin—whe titer our *words have not been drawn in vain, and valour and skill exerted to no purpose ?' I would 'ak it of thrise soldiers woo took prisoner an Officer near -Corunna, the only one who jell into their hands, and he the same, tornierly their captive at Vimiera —I would ask them,. I say, it there has not been a lavish waste of gallantry and of blond ? Here the Noble 'Curd mentioned a Cormilunication 'made in lunot's' intercepted letter to the Grand Duke of stating- that he was . suiteiently employed in resisting . the progress of insurrection in the country. The 'Noble Lord concluded a speech of consider able length and, warmth, by moving the following` Resolution :—" That the Armistice of th aoth . Au-a j gust, and Maritime Convention of 3d September, 1,808, have dir.appointed the hopes and expeCtations of the 'Nation." • ,•• Lord, CASTLEREAGH rose, and in a very pointed .and haedseine exordium returned thanks' :to the Noble Lord who just 531 down, for the' manner in . whice he.put forward the conduct of his Majesy's Mikiisters ; in fact, he disbordened them, in /pie, of .that heavy onus of imputation which lie meant to at- • fix to them. Nothing was more Letrealial towards theaccumplishment of this than theeki ravagant inan nor to. which they combated the mode pursued by Ministers in the getting up and equipinent of the ek- ' Regarding the 'authei tiles quoted by the Noble Lordegainst the proceedings of the Court of L Thiry, he bud only to observe, that he believed tltic in le :be best clithatierized by their antiquity.-e lionoor of the individual concerned is that in quiry he should consider as dear to him as his own ; and he most say; that he imaAitied the proceedings tin that inquiry entirely s.+ttsia with respect to t h i t individual.' After' deprecating , any wish to take op the time of the !-toast; on tiii4 head ; the Noble Lord proceeded, and said, that, hecould not welt ex prcsoi ,he sensations ot regret and surprise which. he tell at some expr , ssions whieh . bad tl.leu front the Noble Lard (H. Pvtty)'in. :ie.:conclusion of his ad dreis to than House. The Noble Lira toms told you, that we nave drawl) Oar swords and exerted our energies' in vain, white defending an oppressed and injured peeple. Cruel retribution for the exertions Nhich have been so employed I. "Lite Neoie Ler I then, in a strain ot perspicuous, reasoning, anew. ed the necessity of dividing the force as it. was di. vided, and furnishing it' wnh the , otticers who were objected to on !he head of unnecessary intrusion.--e Atte' mucli explanation, in that cool and dispassiuu ate eloquence for Which he is highly distinguished, the Noble Viscount humorously and foicthly re marked, that thongh opposite in its applicatien.to the present case,yet few would perhaps credit the assertion that the splendid expedition to the Dardaneltes made the late etticient4d min istrkit ion covered with inaccura cies and deficiencies more .glartng than arty' in the expedition which forms the subject of debate. He thee'reCapitulated the positions of the various corps previous to the setting out of the expednion ; for Portugal, and from their relative situation, argued that no distribution could be more cumin:tem to.au swer the end of improving on any ciicumstauces , 'Wide!): may occur to their advantage, lie reterred generally to the instructions which he sent'to fbe different commanders, and demonstrated their stall. cientY. It was 'aViurd, and tending to detest the object of the expedition, he observed, tie doWn any offi-t• where his freedom of acting may.'he :pro ductiye of advantageous results. 'Flint we were not stteh .nnwelCme visitOts:lo,Portogal, hes said'would. appear from the positive invitation of-Portugal itself.' He really thought than the Pyrenean scheme - of the Noble Lord- deserved very justly to be Called a Ono. It 'would seem by their vast lituTY into Spain, as it they considered it possible, by block. lug up the great .gateway in the pyrennees; to AO , in the French who were within, and exclude the whole nation • from without. They consider not, 'however, that there are 43 predicable passesihrough them: Mouthainyt- whereby the enemy may gain ad 01418n-cc ; tior have they reflected on the considerable force in the :country (allowing that it were so in ' closed) . , whicli-would be opposed to ttfeincansiderab,e toted fhey would thus rashly 'venture. There would ,he-too,ooo men , set against 25,000., After sonie hurnourout dilatation du this subject of opposdi.in coneeption, and hewing fully explained theinstrtc tions given' by. Goverement to-those Officers who were to join the disposable force under Sir A. *1 7.. 16sley, the NobleLotd proceeded: He was glad to 'ftitd that time objeelions to the Expedition had eart 'sid&rablinorrowed since the Arst accounts of its re, salt reached' this country, when it was declared at that rem nit was solely attributable to 'his Majesty's Goveic inent.- It was then stated-that the army ient under Sir A. Wellesley was wholly destitute of ca valry, artillery, ammunition, - provisions, and all oher tne;:s nece*sary to its equipment. No expediion ha r t eVersa Red from this country to the coast of &lin and Portugal without v irivallssrs, containing provitons tut three months,. ; exclusively of tin: provision in •• • however, existed in moving the army efter landing, diflictilty very much owing to theiwant of horses. The difficulty w as increa;:d, or diminished by cir cuinsteetek In aU.,Austrian army!'ot 30,000 men, the horses necessary' to redder it movable amounted to 1500. How then could our Government dis embark our-army -without looking to the country-for the means of, enabling it to move. -If the •country suppese that a large British army can, immediately on landing on the Continent, be movable, it was miserably deceived. They niust)taVe time to pre- pare themselves. :This Many waseqnieped complet e ly in every respect bit cavalry atidartillery. horses. It was unfair ilk the Noble - Lord to:shut his eyes to the ' 'reinforceMent tint in point of cavalry was - intended,. • and was actually sent Subsequently from this coutiny,. in aid _of the expedition that Sailed from Cork. Unquestionably, had Sir Arthur WelleSley's means been more adequate, his services would have been more brilliant and advantageons ; but still his army was sufficiently equipped. (accord;ng to' the gallant General's own statement) to enable him to execute the service en which he was sent—namely, to pos.' sess himself of Lisbon: On this question Sir A. Wellesley was as competent to judge as Sir H. Dal- ryinple and Sir - H. Berrard ; and the judgmenj he had given was the more impartial, as it was declared by hint before the commencement of operations. - As for the ArMistice, it was agreed to, nut on account of any apprehensions whatever enterteirted for the safe ty or ultimate success ofthe British Army, but be cause it was advisable to release the British troops as soon as pesitible, to be ethployed in Spain.— The defeaive state of the equipment Of the British army could not- enter into• the motives by which .our Generals had been actuated, for Sir Harry Bur rard knew thet Sir John Moore was at hand with considerable supplies. The eharaoer of' the. Irish horses Whit the expedition had been much depreci-. reed. He must defend the charaa6r of his country men '(a laugh); he declared that tits, Irish 'horses had • been very much admired, and pronounced as tit for the artillery. service as any horses that ever exist ed. If any blame attached en this occasion, it fell, on himself, and net on the Ordnance Board, , whO could have supplied any quantity of artillery-horsest that he required. • The respuesibility• was exclusive- ly his own. Let the House recollect, that-this was the first expedi t ion,of the sort accompanied by any They did not eppe,ir to hint to be eecessary. \Veen our army:lauded in Egypt, - there were eat t5O horses with it. When Sir IL Abercrumby Dial land, he Was.precisely in the same - circumstance: It was not to be supposed that an army without liorges:. 'Was incapable-of service.' Mien - aim eepeditiou was sent originally without any de6nite set vice„ and 'the troops.reinaie lohg on board.ship; it was ireeoistble that any large, numberofhorsea'aruld he attached so' it with adVantage. 111ereport : by Col. Rhodes ac knowledged that the hue es did there work well; and that the army w;:s tivet° delayed by' their delectioe ; and Sir Arthur Weilesley's letter coolitined this state meet. After the voyage; after a march 4150 Miles, and after two -battles, thirly e three horses enly were lo,t, of whom twelve were killed or ,:w n eatieded i action. • Had the finest -artillery horses that this country could 'furnish been' carried thither instead, they would not have dbne their work so'well'aslhOSe hardy Irish horses taken from the Cenithissariat. Though : they Might net move se rapidly, • it. , w a s well koewn that no. branch of the ffritiSh torce beat the enemy so completely as the artillery drawn by these identical berses.. , To sheW that they were net: so , inditierent es represented,. above on 6 hundred of. these Itisei horses had been selected tp with the . British army, And, were arming the most serviceable horses- io tee Unexampled march which-that army undertook. • With respea to cavalry, surely it 'could not be coesidered,inadeqtiate When it Wait recollected that a force was prepared equal to that of the enemy. Had the whole been assembied, it viola l4ve 4t mounted:to t ,500 cavalry, and it did not ;repeat' that the (mealy ever brought into.: the . field more than I,2oo.:.Certainlv this number was not present in the . ffrSt in4tanee, on , they were :lent as soon as transports, could be provided tor - them, and he begged leave to speak io the' highest terms-- of the conduct of • the Tran Sport Board ta: the whole of 'the bu'iiness,— eArtioes of the ciovernment woe as' great as the means of the country could Miura, and they would base sent the wholii.ef the cavalry at once : hail they been able. Nor was the delay in' their ar- : .rival very considerable. Had Sir J. Moore's farce -not been delayed by ;Averse winds it would have been' Present - at the -Wile of 'Willem,. as might also the regiment (the eighteenth Dragoons) under the LlGNllitland of his gallant relation. 13c claimed . for the'Goverementahe praise of having done their dfitY to 'the extent of their power.. Two'cbar g es *had been tuede,with resped 1104 artillery s the first, that none had been sent at all : the other, that . none had been sent on triwellittg carriages.' With-. out much military charity. it was to be easily con jectured, that Sir' A.rthur • would not have advanced as he bad done, unless he possessed' toe weans of effeeting the : object at which he alined. So much for the first ebarge. Now, as to -the charge artillery was not - en travelling ear: iages, no referred to a report from Sir Charles Stewart, who was in Portugal in 1 79), iu which -that gailale Gene ral observed, that, in 'his opiiiion, that species' of, ' equipment was miservitetsble in Portugal, from triaoy caoses, and ezirtienktrly atom' the bad state of the roads. The, 'Noble Lord opposite hastl reprehehded the gehertdity Of the terms pre scribed to the Genefitls ties Perlog , aese Expedi thin, as to the ultimate 0t . ,:;e0 of their exertions. Did the Noble Lord meats to say, that no ease Could exist, in .which it was adviatible no; to push an.ebealy to the hardest terms ?. • It was not Trom' the absence of instruttion, but from other groends, that the event was : such is it liad'heen. I hr, tritiSt were instimit ed:to,expel the French,• but lie .expelling them also, to endeavo.er r 0 iowcept - theriL • The - Noble Lord was vehement iu: his charge that the epircitios were so framed. at to expose the , army to a ehatige Of command. • 1 If such a principle --as that - of the' Noble Lord were universally admitted,' ha com bined- operations- .could taka.• „place. In- the last einnpaign in the Netherlands, the chief command Was cliattged in foi-ty7eighthonN nu les4' than four tunes. It coteld,nevethe a charge brOught igainit a ty. G: r? r , e;n s m i ir l arrn tlil e i a e ff: Ee l t e e r t a do t :o i , o tko n , a pc..r tL o g e : , t ,L i : n rflo s ) t ri : ‘;g o ri :a iti. e c t ii :l A r lv a ie - s conceived nu to the, supersession of his Honourable Friend near him, every :one that keew his gallantry and skill doubt of his ability, - but fiorn that which cVai. the osnal movie, service, and which could not be departed from without throwing on another very gallant ,Officer an imputation whiCh_ be , not deserve. In justice to that officer he must 41.7. whatever,differences of opinion existed on thissuh• jeer, tirie - the-command was-rested itt-him with the - utmost cOnfidence, and that in many most delicate cases, and especially in his conduct at GibridLir, Jia4 evinced a - strength of niltid and acuteness at J tuts'. ment, which gave the most favourable itnpressioh of his character. The view which the iNohle, Lord had — taketi of 'the Convention of Coq, was by no -means 7fair, Was it fair to deny that no- adeantitges • had resulted from ii, :because it !iad •Mit. UT/ to °VC!' sanguine eXpet:ta*, 1 1011 S ? Was it no advantage that in three weeks a' French army of 25,000 men W 39 expelled treat Per : Mph and the country restored to its inhabitants? . Was it nothing by t,eo such vidories to aid 10 so' great a degree to, the military glory of Gfeat Brit9to? When the news of the battle of Vitniera arrived, without atty. further consideration, the joy of the counuy unrestrainedly broke loose: • The stibseetieet judgment of the" country on the Arinkice and Coll , tion Was certainly precipitate, - arid h e declared this the more freely ay he himself i along , with the country in opinion at that lime. The country mid himself did not t h e n diva the enemy credit-for the moonlit of tore whichtt affvr . • wards appeared they had in Portugal, although he . wag far from imputing to 'his iQ ,( 6 4: l ll le ni ti " C lti r i c d ";'ll : intention, of withholding all neeessuy on-that subject. ,He could not but cotter:we Ihu t4 i trait hither •prestunnoicins tsl nppote Ibe 011.1114)11 O f the whole Staff in Pot fugal Wit It • respect to the 14 °- priety . of s granting to the French he liberty of retiring from that country. When to this was added the OP" cision of the Board of Inquiry, it appeared to hint to be a settled question. ,Certainly there were points • in the Armistice and Conventien, which :tt the thre e, he felt it lief duty titrie ly to contletnn'; for he cook' not cOneeiVe that we were entitled to make perema tory stipul.itions • with respect: to another power , • whoseleelings, if not ita interest, must einettestiOl" • ably be hurt by that . Circumstance.; The Noble Lord`was surprised that e. no instructions .Wer i 4 urd , to Sir Charles . • Cetton; for such a long le'ral titter the fatheif April. li. Was . not too`much to lein'e t°' the discretion of this'gallant Natal Ottiretr, hot's , Ito , was to a 4, to forward in the best way the views 1)1 the general eXpeditlun.. Board of Aernira tt y 4;4 thenght ,t lett ; under :all . 1 he ci um s t owes, t Kit Wirer had done his duty: tleg the whole course ot• the operations i n , th e Tagus ..it was :net PrT rt :' ,A , that, the Russians - had t a k en an active .oart 3•,;a 1 9" 149,eortuguit , e ; and ;here was )10thil) the ec'n anft pursued by Sir •C. Cottontoj>e at' all re P`". l eusble• This W. 14 a titte.e too Ott which the mind of tett; h a d • b een ~,•r e much irri taed. -lie trusted kiEtt tet,e,,„ tse p u i the ct:st.' P the Qraverinneet had er dect age tethe t Von cenrt iitstiffekel,a. . Board of Inquiry, - the' infoim t - d-'" etiter: o btain" l4 have briten Much narrowed: I"tie vhole cg the 0 L had been brought before the Eiouse been rereried to such. a tribLinal. d :tope ,he Had submitted to (141-leuse grotind 'tits•Opinioa , • 'that the expedition against Portugal ' ,gas a most tei'd fans expedient measure, ettd. that the vat jells plans of ' t: -, Opeuitions suggested es Lycelerable, •,t'ottla have in-some cases. visionary, and in all daegerons.. 11 the plan Was, wise,ahe execu:ton Wai vtgorou9, nod . 114 result had been such at•rat . ,erty other time the cant:?' 1 have hailed . mo s t. .sueeessful and. glerio7 . HOW ,was it possibly; then, to dee;are that the 11 ; action had disappoitiled, the hopes and etipto' dg rx , s , u 1 ): of the Nation. As thia . first part of the Nettle 1 r 'P proposition was utrjua et a• so was the second part rteat.4t necessary, Tice "Catintry had made the effort ever.madebY it, and had lande'ti, on the tinent the greatest Military force that Wo .oo' l ' l ° l°l . assembled *of British trov e s. OA the first Geni' e ' s; " . tion weuld move the pievioes Itte • second,diewOold 1101 Shriek trout wkirg the t.:? , ,i?i' cs2/ * semi; of the House. • G. Nuo,N, said U few words, but ;i'd'lP' l °, vl a tone ot voice, that it was imposaib:e to culled se tenor ot the gallant ,Baronte'Sohaervations. • General TARUETON CoenpilillealteU the Lae... L'e I ', who opened the debate, Ott the c o mprehensivo a w rg h t ic izen i t t a i w ha n d ic , in id his Opinion, been- eery. ,and;.q,o replied to by the Noble Lord whofollowed Adverting to what had bean said. about caiairi,' hr instanced the case of Sir William Home, wife had bed a regiment of, cavalry with him at, sea for si!' weeks,, and who on lauding was ready itutnedi itelf to advance. •He dwelt forsome ti me „„ t t h e t ni se • rable_,stete Of;Junot'S' 'after his defeat, 2134 contended, that .haVing, to return to Fort `St. Julian, it was impossible e ter:thew to °et:l.ll)Y s ' l large a .a,r,ree, and they :Were cens , zteiently placed 0 a situation of tide nielest dleter, i:ursued a lt-1 were by a soperior and viellitious tot ce. ll,el tbc? e ''" however, retired to their forts, eseetier r oreht /I:° ' heCn broi l r • sinps, inht cers there who , firmly believed that 1:0; . 1 St' tnust have surrendered in 14 days. The't ! "" ... ' too, was frieedly to u,s", 'and•hostile to the enetW l a moat streistely. in ever}': : the sentinteuts..of' the tioard of Inquity.. estonint.d, that Se: Yit t);ticers cone' be in the service ceipotile.clt expreSsia g - "t'' schtlioeuti. Tho• supppesition• that the 1'1 0 °, 4 could weltease li a te i h„ 11103 t ehtweak:in. , ,In ; Com at York - Town in t a situation similar to th 3 z Janot, with the • la hit; coil'' , at tail agt,* c I • o d . - and artil'wry over e r . river that tees. before liOhY a i)e was. but Ottertriie ,Oreedili, i Tagus was four miles in .breadthe _end ,:yet • 14 61. Cornwallis, a maa universally respected all (es fie t :f ou nd ththi ittipNit: te tic dill. to retreat. L er9 censure; the wavering itoosisteney of Altni s ,..; in the - . titoice of Commenderi. Of Sir H. tl • t tuft iin bur b e - eyrie - pre: *lShed •to' • ao-: certainly Shou!t.l net have . eli, , sett bin) for 301.: . 1, important service. He bastoWed a high eologutri", on Sic A. Wellealey.. wos of th1i•••,, ) , 1 ambitiOn. 'Wrs it prudent le. place such a • close to an enemy, with the intimation , a . tV 1S swirl to have- a st.ecessor ? tee hie ,t r , situation Tiler:;} to ,produce - rashness, tired - ness i 0A: neti k ," be. ;could. notc avaa4 (i d e a - the battle that had- been fought. the ' LI y elmnago ric ;Veirnrrvlncliner ntficeti wee, IV-.